Davante Adams will never forget the time Aaron Rodgers essentially kicked him off the field.
He can smile about it now -- now that he's Rodgers' favorite target. But at the time during Adams' rookie year, a few weeks into the 2014 season, it served as a wake-up call. As Adams remembered it, he either ran the wrong route or failed to adjust his route properly and Rodgers signaled toward the Packers' bench to take Adams off the field.
"Yeah, pretty much that was his thought," Adams said this week.
And Adams can admit now, he didn't blame Rodgers.
"I never took anything [personal] since I've been here," Adams said. "Because at the end of the day all you've got to do is look at what he's accomplished and the level he plays and carries himself, it just makes you think, ‘OK, he just wants me to be on the same level or close to that.'"
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"I feel like you guys have asked it in different ways but at the end of the day it was never a matter of me not being a good player or I slacked off in the offseason and came in bulls---ting or something like that," Adams said. "I didn't play the way I wanted to based on an injury, but during the season I'm not going to say that. People don't care. But when you have a lingering ankle all year and then you tear your ACL in the playoff when it's my coming out (party) -- which was a late coming out game, I admit -- but those are the things right there."
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